How Many Mistakes Can You Find?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...ocid=spartan


35 pics of rare, valuable stamps.

I stopped at the Penny Red, when I saw:




How about plate 77...

Since they show the 1c 1851 stamp, unused, I should comment on it as well.

For it, they just say, and I'm paraphrasing:

"Benjamin Franklin, 1851 - Only two Mint and around 100 used are known to still exist."

They do not qualify what variety they are talking about. This is where it gets interesting.

One would think that they mean Scott #5 7R1E, which has about 3 known unused copies and about 100 used. So that mostly agrees.

Here is the problem: the stamp that they used for the illustration is a Scott #5A, Position 9R1E. It is also a rare stamp unused, but does not agree with their text.

What a mess. Ignorance on the reader's part here is bliss.

I stopped at the 5 million dollar penny black.....

I'm going to cash in my $9 million 1d black and 2d blue. Retirement funded.

Olive-colored Queen Victoria's Head, 1864
Value: $824,648
Country: China

Shouldn't the country be Hong Kong.. It is an administrative province of china but still its own country !

The US pictorials are nice but not most valued or super rare.